I'm Matt Downey, an AI product designer and curator of what matters next.
I'm currently building AI-powered software as the Head of Design at Atlas UP. I also send Digital Native, the newsletter for designers in the AI era.
- Design Systems Are Now Infrastructure for AI
NewsletterToday - Gal "quits design" because Fable made a logo he says he wouldn't have come up with himself. Dylan rides in to remind everyone design still matters. The comments turn into designers asking Figma to promise everything will be okay. Meanwhile @figma is betting its own future on AI progress. Yes, the bar moved. Fast. So buckle down. Learn the tools. Take the taste everyone keeps calling "the only moat left" and actually build something with it. There has never been more leverage for designers willing to dive in and learn.X / Twitter1d ago
- There's so much talk about taste being the final frontier in a world of agentic design. But 99% of my design happens in code now. Which means the libraries I choose, the components I build, and effort put into enforcing uniformity and structure... that's a taste call, too.X / Twitter2d ago
- Either the @openai hype machine is finely tuned (probably) or GPT-5.6 is going to be one of the best releases yet. Looking forward to testing it out tomorrow.X / Twitter3d ago
- Building agents that hold their secrets
Newsletter1w ago - Shout out to @paper for making their shaders free and open source. Can't wait to see what people build with them. https://shaders.paper.design/X / Twitter1w ago
- When Agents Write the Design System
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